Thursday, June 22, 2006
Warming up Thursday
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock is considering expanding to Northwest Arkansas, its chancellor said Wednesday. I. Dodd Wilson cited an expected shortage of medical personnel over the next 10 to 20 years.
The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas reports the state has expanded a payday lending lawsuit to include two more storefront lenders accused of charging exorbitant interest rates on loans. The action added Money in A Flash.net locations in Little Rock and West Memphis to the lawsuit filed Feb. 28 against the firm's Jonesboro location. The attorney general's office also filed a separate lawsuit against MagnoliaMoney.net, a similar operation in Magnolia.
One day after publicly withdrawing his support for a proposed $50 million baseball stadium, the Rev. Ronnie Floyd said Wednesday that he hopes a stadium is built but that alcohol is not served.
Two people, including the granddaughter of the victim, remain jailed after an initial court appearance on charges of capital murder in the June 15 slaying of the mayor of Mc-Neil. Nena Danette Bolton and Shaunte Myron Smith both of McNeil, were arrested Tuesday in the death of 83-yearold Ralph Ward. Bolton is Ward’s granddaughter. She was recently released from state prison after serving a sentence for the 1998 murder of her estranged husband, Larry Bolton.
A federal judge sentenced Lola Thrower, a former administrator of the state program to assist people with AIDS, to five months in prison and ordered her to repay more than $19,000 in taxpayer funds that were discovered stolen as a result of questions raised by an FOI request from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Three of six men who escaped a day earlier from the Van Buren County jail, but the one considered most dangerous remained at large.
The phone calls and e-mails streaming into Craighead County Sheriff's Investigator Gary Etter's office are all the proof he needs that a nationally televised program about the unsolved murder of Amanda Tusing achieved its goal. Court TV aired its new series, "Haunting Evidence," last Wednesday night to spotlight the 6-year-old murder case of a Mississippi County woman near the Lester community in eastern Craighead County. So far, there has been no arrest.
Gunner DeLay, the Republican candidate for Arkansas attorney general, proposed Wednesday using part of the state's $332 million budget surplus to build more state prisons.
Fayetteville Mayor Dan Coody apologized for allowing the cost of the wastewater system improvement project to exceed estimates by $55 million and urged voters to support a special election on Sep. 12 to complete it by passing a bon disuse. Otherwise, city leaders say water and sewer rates will go up.
Construction on what is projected to be the busiest of Arkansas’ state-run nature centers is set to begin within two months, after state and Little Rock officials on Wednesday ceremoniously shoveled dirt at the riverside site where it’s due to be open next year.
The Fayetteville Veterans Nursing Home admitted its first patient Wednesday, after five years of funding and budget delays. Fenton Whiteley, 97, a World War II veteran from Green Forest in Carroll County, was the first patient admitted.
The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas reports the state has expanded a payday lending lawsuit to include two more storefront lenders accused of charging exorbitant interest rates on loans. The action added Money in A Flash.net locations in Little Rock and West Memphis to the lawsuit filed Feb. 28 against the firm's Jonesboro location. The attorney general's office also filed a separate lawsuit against MagnoliaMoney.net, a similar operation in Magnolia.
One day after publicly withdrawing his support for a proposed $50 million baseball stadium, the Rev. Ronnie Floyd said Wednesday that he hopes a stadium is built but that alcohol is not served.
Two people, including the granddaughter of the victim, remain jailed after an initial court appearance on charges of capital murder in the June 15 slaying of the mayor of Mc-Neil. Nena Danette Bolton and Shaunte Myron Smith both of McNeil, were arrested Tuesday in the death of 83-yearold Ralph Ward. Bolton is Ward’s granddaughter. She was recently released from state prison after serving a sentence for the 1998 murder of her estranged husband, Larry Bolton.
A federal judge sentenced Lola Thrower, a former administrator of the state program to assist people with AIDS, to five months in prison and ordered her to repay more than $19,000 in taxpayer funds that were discovered stolen as a result of questions raised by an FOI request from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Three of six men who escaped a day earlier from the Van Buren County jail, but the one considered most dangerous remained at large.
The phone calls and e-mails streaming into Craighead County Sheriff's Investigator Gary Etter's office are all the proof he needs that a nationally televised program about the unsolved murder of Amanda Tusing achieved its goal. Court TV aired its new series, "Haunting Evidence," last Wednesday night to spotlight the 6-year-old murder case of a Mississippi County woman near the Lester community in eastern Craighead County. So far, there has been no arrest.
Gunner DeLay, the Republican candidate for Arkansas attorney general, proposed Wednesday using part of the state's $332 million budget surplus to build more state prisons.
Fayetteville Mayor Dan Coody apologized for allowing the cost of the wastewater system improvement project to exceed estimates by $55 million and urged voters to support a special election on Sep. 12 to complete it by passing a bon disuse. Otherwise, city leaders say water and sewer rates will go up.
Construction on what is projected to be the busiest of Arkansas’ state-run nature centers is set to begin within two months, after state and Little Rock officials on Wednesday ceremoniously shoveled dirt at the riverside site where it’s due to be open next year.
The Fayetteville Veterans Nursing Home admitted its first patient Wednesday, after five years of funding and budget delays. Fenton Whiteley, 97, a World War II veteran from Green Forest in Carroll County, was the first patient admitted.
